tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 10 12:06:27 1997
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Re: Qov's Sentences
- From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Qov's Sentences
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:05:17 PST
- Organization: NLK Consultants, Inc.
- Priority: normal
Duncan Barrett wrote:
& I hope this is what Qov meant by a lutHom:
It is precisely what I meant. And I love it.
& romuluSngan ror ghaH vIlItIS.
& Vilitis is a fat Romulan.
Don't forget the topic marker. Even though vItIlIS isn't a real
Klingon word, you still need to say:
romuluSngan ror ghaH vIlItIS'e'
& DujDaj luHiv tlhInganpu'.
& Klingons attack his ship.
Missed the shift key: <luHIv>
& quSDajDaq ratlh vIlItIS (ror ghaH).
& Vilitis is stuck (remains) in his chair ( [for] he is fat ).
Missing a bit of syntactic glue to hold your sentence together,
weren't you? Check the appendix for the type 9 verb suffix, -mo'
Watch how it works:
ror vItIlIS - Vilitis is fat
rormo' vItIlIS - because Vitilis is fat
rormo' vItIlIS quSDajDaq ratlh ghaH - Vitilis remains in his chair
because he is fat.
There is no rule that *requires* the -mo' clause to go at the
beginning of the sentence, but most people normally put it there
because in a Klingon sentence most other things precede the main
clause. I've swapped the pronoun and the name in the translation so
that in each case the name comes first do the pronoun has something
to refer back to. Note that you could omit ghaH all together. With
ghaH included, the sentence somewhat emphasises that *Vitilis* and
not someone else remains in the chair, which is appropriate, so I
left it.
& meHDaq Hegh Hoch - yIn vIlItIS neH.
& On the bridge everyone is dead - only Vilitis is alive.
Everyone dies, actually. Hegh is 'die,' not 'be dead'. Otherwise
perfect.
& Hu'nIS, ach' Hu'laHbe'.
& He has to get up, but he can't get up.
Typo: 'ach not ach'.
& peng lubaH thlInganpu'.
& The Klingons fire a torpedo.
You swapped around the letters in 'tlh'. (After a while you get the
hang of typing 'tlh' and then you can't type words like 'triathlon'
or 'health' on the first try.)
& vIlItIS Duj luQaw' tlhInganpu'.
& The Klingons destroy Vilitis' ship.
Spot on.
I'm impressed. You haven't been on the list long, but you've
obviously read your TKD and paid attention to it. You know your word
order, your prefixes, and you recognized when you were missing
something. 'ej tlhaQba' lutHomlIj. maHvaD latlh lutHom yIqon!
- Qov
Robyn Stewart [email protected]
NLK Technical Library ph. (604) 689-0344 fax (604) 443-1000
NLK Consultants Inc. 855 Homer Street, Vancouver BC V6B 5S2